PUBLICATION OF MILITARY REPORTS.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR FRIDAY. ENGINEERING CRISIS LESS CRITICAL. LEEDS STRIKERS MAKE AMENDS. BY DECIDING TO WORK ON HOLIDAYS. (Received March 28, 8.45 a.m.) . . LONDON, March 27. • i j ? London newspapers have decided in view of the important battle to publish on Good Friday, but as it is likely that many country newspapers will not be publishing the Premier has^ decided to past up Sir Douglas Haig's communiques at every post £? on Friday and also on Sunday. The engineering crisis is less critical. Many delegates to the Manchester Conxereiice, cabled on March 24, state that the. resolution misrepresented the intention of the delegates, who only wanted to test the feeling of shops and districts regarding a strike. They rea'ise that the present is no time to force a decision. Remarkable scenes occurred in connection with a strike of skilled engineers at Leeds, which had rendered three shell factories idle. A meeting of wounded soldiers protested against
I j£\ Stnke in a,Cit7 Sq^re gathering 1 w?? l n arm 7 cWain said the strife I W «? Dab> aii d Col*tem P tible a r3s« I men r f < h f ori natlonfl .trial. The wounded 5 e * Hall WenTh^ »™™*™ to the f^_U k liley were not allowed ktP?_^ *h? strikers' meeting, bSt later a decision was reachd to return X &mm^fe tely and work thSS itt w* r holldays to mak* «P-
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5
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233PUBLICATION OF MILITARY REPORTS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5
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